Ana Portnoy Brimmer

Ana Portnoy Brimmer, the daughter of Mexican-Jewish parents, is a poet, translator, impact producer, and organizer from Puerto Rico. She holds a BA and an MA in English literature from the University of Puerto Rico and is an alumna of the MFA program in creative writing at Rutgers University–Newark. 

To Love an Island (2021), Portnoy Brimmer’s poetry debut, was originally the winner of YesYes Books’ 2019 Vinyl 45 Chapbook Contest. Que tiemble (2023), a derivative work of poetry in Spanish, was published with La Impresora; and Aimer une île (2025), a translation of Que tiemble into French by Benjamin Haroun Montesano, was published with Editorial Pulpo. 

Portnoy Brimmer is a 2025 Letras Boricuas Fellow and 2024 Hedgebrook Writer-in-Residence Program alumna, she was awarded a 2023 MASS MoCA fellowship for artists from Puerto Rico, and was named one of Poets & Writers’ 2021 Debut Poets. Her work has been anthologized in Disparate Kind: Neurodivergent Poets Chapbook, Vol. 1 (University of California Santa Barbara, 2025); Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology (Library of America, 2024), edited by Rigoberto González; and Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm (Haymarket Books, 2019), edited by Yarimar Bonilla and Marisol LeBrón. 

Portnoy Brimmer resides in Puerto Rico.